Improvement in oil-cans for lubricating



T. FILDES. ATTACHMENT FOR OIL CANS.

No. 23,560. Patented Apr. 12, 1859.

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NITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE THOMAS FILDES, OF MEDIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN OIL-CANS FOR LUBRICATING.

S 'iecilication forming part of Letters Patent No. 23,560. dated April12, 1659.

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS FILDES, of Media, in the county of Delawareand State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Attachmentfor Oil-Cans for Lubricating Purposes; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, referencebeing had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification,in which-- Figure 1 is a side view of my invention applied to anoil-can. Fig. 2 is a back view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the twofigures.

The object of this invention is to facilitate the lubrice ting ofmachinery and prevent the usual waste of oil hitherto attending thesame.

The invention consists in attaching a clamp to a handle of suitablelength, in which a lever or pressure bar is fitted and arranged with acord, substantially as hereinafter shown and described, so that the canmay be secured in the clamp and the nozzle of the can directed by theattendant to the desired spot without the aid of a ladder, and the oilejected from the can by simply actuating the pressure-bar.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand, construct, anduse my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents a handle, which may be of wood of any proper length, and Bis a clamp which is constructed of metal, and consists of an annularsocket, a, which is rather more than a semicircle, as shown clearly inFig. 2, and has a shank, I), attached to it, the shank being secured tothe handle by screws 0 or other proper means. The socket a, at its innerside, is beveled to conform to the conical shape of the can.

To the outer ends of the socket to a bar, d, is attached by thumb-screwse c, and to the in ner end of the socket, at its back side, two lugs,ff, are attached.

\Vithin the shank b, and at its junction with the socket a, a lever orbar, 0, is fitted or placed and secured by a fulcrunrpin, g. The outeror front end of this lever or bar extends to about the center of thesocket a, and has a head, h, formed on it, and the inner end of thelever or bar has a cord, 0', attached to it,

said cord passing through a slot in the shank b and around a pulley, j,the cord extending nearly the whole length of the handle and beingattached to a slide, 7c, which is fitted in the handle at or near itsinner end, said slide having a thumlrpiece, Z,' attached to it.

D is the oil-can, which is secured in the socket a by the bar (1 andlugsf f, the socket and bar forming the clamp. .By referring to Fig. 1the position of the can in the clamp will 3 be clearly seen. The can maybe provided with curved nozzle (0*, and is constructed similarly to theordinary hand oil-cans, from which the oil is ejected by springing orforcing inward the bottom.

The device is used as follows The can is filled with the oil, and theattendant grasps the handle A and places the nozzle a of the can at thedesired spot and then draws back the slide in, a thumb or fingerbeingplaced on the projection or thumb-piece l of the slide. This drawingback of the slide 7: actuates the lever or bar 0, and its head h forcesinward the bottom of the can D, thereby ejecting the oil from the nozzleof the can precisely the same as if the thumb were directly applied tothe bottom of thecan, as usual.

By this invention all the parts of a machine may be lubricated withoutthe aid of a ladder, as the handle A may be of any length, and thenozzle a of the can D may be properly adjusted to the parts to belubricated before the lever or bar 0 is actuated, thereby avoiding thewaste of oil, which now occurs in consequence of the securing of theordinary tilting oil-can to a pole, the oil escaping as soon as the canis tilted and before the nozzle is applied to the desired place.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

Attaching the oil-can D by means of a clamp, B, to a handle, A, andusing in connection therewith the lever or bar 0, actuated by the cord tand slide it or their equivalents, substantially as and for the purposeset forth.

THOMAS FILDES. \Vitnesses:

NATHAN SHAW, 1. LAURENCE HALDEMAN,

